Lick & Lather Response

Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather was quite interesting.  At first I could not bring myself to take the meaning behind her artwork seriously, but after I saw the connections between the pieces I began to gain more of an appreciation for it.  I enjoyed that she looked at the rope she created as her life line and thought it would be adequate to learn how to tight rope.  Learning how to tightrope in retrospect caused her to learn how to spin hemp.  As for the chocolate and soap sculptures, there was a connection between her actions and the reasoning behind the piece.  The whole video displayed that the work I found myself laughing at, actually connected the thoughts behind her work fluently with her actions.

Soap Carving Statement

The animal I chose to carve was a beaver.  The ideas behind changing the form were from the environmental issues of pollution. I added items to the beaver that would naturally have in its environment: twigs, vines.  But also the corrupted industrial side to a natural habitat as well: the metal eyelets, bear bottles. For subtracting, I wanted to illustrate how all of the toxins being poured into the environment can lead to some animals, such as the beaver, to its demise. The fire is much like a forest fire, the bleach is much like the toxins being poured into natural bodies of water, and the plastic is much like the recyclables that are being thrown into nature.  All of these issues turn something that is naturally beautiful into a compiled mess of waste.

Disney Discoveries

Me and my magnificent girlfriend ran across this in Disney. I guess design never leaves your mind!

Soap Carving

~The Carving Process~

 

 

  

 

Finished Carving

 

 

 

 

 

Second Sculpture

 

 

 

~Additive & Subtractive Process~

I added metal eyelets to the sculpture (additive)

 

 

I then added sticks in the center of the eyelets (additive)

 

Pulling vines from a bush, I weaved them in between the sticks (additive)

 

 

 Then, I picked up broken beer bottle pieces on the ground and stuck them in the soap (additive)

By adding the sculpture into bleach I subtracted color from the vines (subtractive)

 

 

 

I put the sculpture in a frying pan with rubbing alcohol and lit it on fire, subtracting the leafs (subtractive)

 

 

  I then chopped off the limbs (subtractive)

I then threw away all of the glass pieces and put all of the other pieces in a plastic bag, wrapping it in tin foil (subtractive & additive)

 

  

After I wrapped it up I added more heat and plastic causing it to melt (additive)

 

 

The final product ended up as this figure

Memento Reading Response

The memento reading was very morbid.  The fact that children and babies were dropped off and compiled into one place was inhumane.  I was reminded of Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World, where human beings were being mass produced in a lab.  Nobody was informed of what life truly was because it was being hidden from them.  All of their actions were predetermined, and if anyone questioned the government they would be killed.  The whole idea of cramming and selecting infants reminded me of the mass production of them in the novel.